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Motivation

This was part of the original proposal for this paper. It has been slightly modified to correct for things like tense, updated statistics, etc.

Drupal.org reports over 73,000+ active Ubercart and Drupal Commerce installations. With such a large and active portion of our community involved in eCommerce, one would expect an equal amount of effort and resources being applied towards helping these websites achieve the mandatory security standards set forth by the Payment Card Industry (PCI).

Unfortunately, a definitive guide or comprehensive resources simply didn’t exist. Instead, there were just a handful of articles, forum threads, and videos; most of these resources are fragmented, outdated, and riddled with inaccurate information. Worse yet, Google’s keyword analzyer tool reported that there were only 100-200 keyword searches a month for “Drupal PCI compliance” and other variations. This is extremely low considering that PCI compliance typically takes months of time and resources to research and implement.

Failing to become PCI compliant exposes businesses to legal and financial liabilities. It can also exposes Drupal to PR issues, where a breach in security can easily lead to “Drupal is insecure” thinking. This should be a huge concern for the Drupal community as a whole, which prides itself in having a strong focus on security as well as one of the world’s most secure open source CMSs.

This report was created as a means to help drupal shops, developers, and customers understand their PCI compliance responsibilities. If you have any suggestions on how to improve upon the report, please send feedback to drupalpcicompliance@gmail.com.

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Errata

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